West Yorkshire Mentor Guide

This guide has been created to support Mentors involved in the West Yorkshire CIPD Branch Mentoring Programme. It aims to be a simple yet effective set of resources to support those taking on the role of Mentor in the Mentoring relationship. The guide contains guidelines, supporting documents and developmental resources that will help develop a sound relationship/ partnership between Mentor and Mentee. It also offers support and guidance to facilitate a Mentor's professional development. Our thanks go to all the volunteers who have have given their time and effort to develop these resources.


Introduction
3

What is Mentoring?
4

The benefits of Mentoring
6

Mentoring Scheme Principles
7

The Mentor’s role
8

Becoming a Mentor
9

The Mentoring relationship
9

Factors for success
9

Selecting and using strategies for supporting the Mentee
10

Preparing for the Mentor Role
11

The initial contracting meeting
11

Mentor – Mentee meetings
12

How can we ensure these meetings work?
13

Issue 1. Structure, purpose, content and process.
13

The GROW Model
14

1. Goal
14

2. Reality
14

3. Options
14

4. Will
14

Issue 2. The Mentor’s skill as a reviewer
15

Issue 3. Feeding back to the Mentee
15

Issue 4. Moving on
17

Additional Materials
18

The skill of Active Listening
19

The Art of Questioning
22

Goal Setting
24

Building Rapport
26

Reading List
28

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